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Monday, 14 September 2015

Now that our two youngest daughters are back to school, we are in full swing with after school activities! The biggest challenge I face is making sure their packed lunch fuels them through the day and the after school clubs, right until dinner time!

Several years ago I came across the Planet Box System - it's brilliant!! I had to get it shipped over to the UK form America as they don't have an outlet or supplier here in the UK, but it was worth the wait!

Here are two weeks worth of packed lunches - apologies for any repeats - they LOVE grapes, carrots and they especially love Pease Pudding with Avocado!!

Lambs Lettuce, corriander and feta cheese with chia seeds together with carrot sticks and cauliflower florets to dip in the balsamic glaze, and almonds, orange segments and grapes to round off!!

Lettuce, cucumber and feta salad, with a panda bottle of Chia seeds to sprinkle over the salad. Also, balsamic glaze to go with the salad and the carrot sticks and sugar snap peas. Two tomatoes, several grapes and a few pistachio nuts! Yum!!!

Lettuce, coriander and sweetcorn salad with Balsamic glaze and Chia Seeds in the Panda Bottle to pour over the salad. We also have carrot sticks, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, orange mini pepper, grapes and cashew nuts.

In the salad we have Chinese Leaf, corriander, carrot, pomegranate and chia seeds! Then sugar snap peas, baby yellow pepper and carrot sticks with balsamic glaze. For desert, grapes, strawberries and cashews!

I hope this gives you some inspiration! I found the Bento Box accessories (the panda food picks and bottles) on Amazon.

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Have you ever wanted to get this variety of veggies into your child in one sitting?

Let me show you how I manage it :-)

This is a vegetarian recipe that can be made vegan with a little bit of tweaking!

Veggie Quinoa Scramble

Ingredients:

Sweetcorn

Courgette

Parsnip

Carrots

Brussel sprouts

Sugar snap peas

Sweet potato

Cauliflower

Broccoli

Turnip

Onion

Quinoa

Eggs

Oil to saute onions (I use coconut oil)

Chop up all of the veggies - you can add any others you would like - I aim for an even ratio of rainbow colours - the smaller you chop them the better if you are trying to get a picky eater to eat more veggies.

You will end up with a big bowl of very small veggies! Probably way more than you need for one sitting! I keep any chopped veggies I haven't used up in a container in the fridge, so I can cook this up quick at short notice, as it's the chopping that takes up all the time with this recipe.

Cook up the veggies. I usually 3/4 fill a 3 Litre pan with veggies and cook that - they don't need more than 6 minutes or so in boiling water as they cook up quickly! At this point I also pop some quinoa on to boil, usually around 400g.

Next, chop up a small onion very finely, and sauté in a large frying pan. At this point I start to feel like a juggler with three pans on the go!! Drain the veggies and drop them in with the onions and give them a quick stir around the pan - then drain the quinoa and throw that in the pan too!

Once the ingredients are all evenly (as possible) mixed up, then throw in 2 or 3 beaten eggs and stir as the eggs mix into the quinoa and veggies and cook.

If you want to keep it a vegan dish, you can either miss out the egg step altogether, or throw in some scrambled tofu.

My children love this dish with some fresh coriander stirred in and a squeeze of lime and a shake of Pink Himalayan Salt over the top - but feel free to add whatever you want (if anything). Cheese, Nutritional Yeast, Ketchup - the list is endless. If you want to make it even more exciting, you could add pine nuts, chick peas, olives, sundered tomatoes, again, the list is endless.

Earlier in the year I signed up to become a Jamie Oliver Food Revolution Ambassador. As you can imagine, with 4 daughters, I am passionate about what children eat, and how to ensure they get the right nutrients to fuel their growing bodies. Some people think it's extreme when my kids only drink water, freshly extracted juice, or nut milks - but extreme to me, is children with Type 2 Diabetes.

The food environment that we have today is worlds away form the one that I grew up in, where every meal I ate was cooked from scratch with freshly made ingredients. Unfortunately, as cooking skills are lost, and the school curriculums push more academics at the cost of life skills, the situation gets worse every generation.

The Food Revolution mission is to get compulsory practical food education into schools across the world, if you haven't already, I urge you to sign the Food Revolution Petition to support this.

As a Food Revolution Ambassador I intend to share as much 'food education' as I can.

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

OMG!! I tried CoYo for the first time this week!!! Delicious!!! Our yoga class was held at the gorgeous Costislost Country Hotel, and Jane Parker, Owner, Chef and Nutritional Therapist, prepared the most amazing brunch! To top our banana and almond pancakes we had CoYo Coconut Yoghurt, and I am now a little over obsessed with this delicious vegan yoghurt!! Just to make it clear, this is not coconut flavoured yoghurt, this is yoghurt made form coconut milk - 100% plant based and 100% delicious!!

Today I'm in the Wimbledon vibe and mixing my CoYo with strawberries!!!

Thursday, 16 April 2015

On Sunday 3rd May (Bank Holiday Weekend) we will be cooking up a storm at Hewitts Bar & Kitchen in Wadebridge, Cornwall - we have a delicious Plant-Based menu with a funky Caribbean twist on offer, a Cocktail & 3 Courses for £25 per head.

To book your place drop in to Hewitts on Molesworth Street in Wadebridge, or give them a call on 01208 368191

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Who Is KarmaMama?

I'm a Mama of 4 daughters, who believes that Green Juice, Good Nutrition and Yoga are the way to a happy and healthy life.

I also believe that your health and wellness is a gift that you should take personal responsibility for. I believe you should move often and eat clean & green. I believe in nature, in organics, in Ayurveda, in botanical tinctures and holistic health.

I am a Yogini, observing the 8 Limbs of Yoga and doing my best to live by that code. I strive for honesty and integrity and above all, LOVE. I am a mother who nurtures her daughters so they can venture out in to the world equipped to live a life full of vitality and love.

Oh, and for a living, I am a freelance illustrator. I specialise in contemporary Fashion and Lifestyle illustrations, created in the digital medium. :-) - Just in case you ever need and illustration!!
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